Sunday Smith of Potsdam was recognized as a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary Club of Potsdam at their annual meeting on June 8. She was honored for her demonstrated commitment to the goals and purposes of Rotary and "in appreciation of her tangible assistance given for the furtherance of better understanding and friendly relations among peoples of the world." As it says in one of the nominations of Smith for this honor, "Sunday has participated in nearly every event with enthusiasm and for the betterment of our club."
Smith just completed her third year in Rotary and serves as membership success chair. She'll be club secretary and president-elect in the 2023-2024 Rotary year.
Smith is a Certified Nurse Midwife and founder of Midwife Sunday Wellness and Birth Center, which offers full-service maternity care.
She has worked in the mortgage, sales, and pharmaceutical event management fields, but has been in health care since 1996. She became a nurse in 2012 and a Certified Nurse Midwife in 2016.
In 2017, Smith and her husband, Bradley, and two children moved to the North Country, where she has been providing maternity and women’s health care to families in five counties ever since through her solo private practice.
Smith has presented at the American College of Nurse Midwives Annual Convention; the Gender, Sex, and Sexuality conference; and the World Midwifery Congress. She was recently inducted into the American College of Nurse Midwives as a Fellow.
She is now completing a doctor of nursing practice degree at University of Massachusetts-Boston.
One-thousand dollars has been donated in Smith's name to the Rotary Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation that supports the efforts of Rotary International to achieve world understanding and peace through international humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs.